1.0 What Is Novell ZENworks Personality Migration?

A personality is a collection of applications and system settings that a user commonly uses on a device. Typical settings can be desktop wallpaper, e-mail account settings, browser proxy settings, files and folders, archived e-mails, Microsoft office templates, Microsoft Office macros, etc.

ZENworks Personality Migration provides a way to automate this process, both on a standalone device or from a centrally managed console. The process significantly reduces the time and effort required in setting up or reconfiguring a desktop for users. This is particularly useful while provisioning new desktops and applications.

ZENworks Personality Migration allows you to store the personality of a Windows user and migrate the personality to another Windows user. For enterprise-scale migrations, you can use ZENworks Configuration Management to distribute Directive bundles to store and apply personality settings to the users.

Store the personality of one or more users on a Windows device to a compressed and password- protected personality file.

Apply the personality settings from a personality file to a Windows desktop.

Directly migrate the personality data from the desktops of one or more users on a Windows device to the users on another Windows device without any intermediate file, if the two devices are interconnected.